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...invest in a given company, no divestment will have any effect. Therefore, divestment campaigns only hurt the investors they go after, such as Harvard’s endowment or Cambridge’s pension fund, and cannot cause real change. This conclusion is backed up by empirical studies. An August study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College surveyed the academic literature and found that such “social investing” has no effect on the stock prices of targeted companies...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: Forget About Divestment | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...country, Fu points out. On Nov. 28, police raided the house of Beijing bookstore owner Shi Weihan, confiscating Bibles and other religious publications and placing him under detention. And Zhou Heng, a businessman and leader of an underground church in China's western Xinjiang region, was arrested in August for receiving three tons of Bibles from South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's New Bestseller: The Bible | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...summer before his senior year, Korean label Trifecta Entertainment picked up his demo, and he recorded his first single over three weeks in August...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Korea Stardom for Baek | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...Prasad says he only became a full-fledged Giuliani backer in August. Now he has the responsibility to rally student support for his candidate...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Campaign for Giuliani in New Hampshire | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

DELAYED REACTION? The outbreak began in August but was not confirmed until Nov.29. Officials in Uganda deny they waited to publicly identify the highly contagious virus until after Queen Elizabeth II and 53 other heads of state had met in the capital, Kampala, on Nov.23 for a Commonwealth summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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